The abdomen bears pleopods, and ends in a telson, which bears the anus, and is often flanked by uropods to form a tail fan.

The uropods and telson collectively form the tail fan ; the uropods are not divided by a diaeresis, as they are in many other decapods.

The abdomen is divided into two parts: the pleosome which bears swimming legs ; and the urosome, which comprises a telson and three pairs of uropods which do not form a tail fan as they do in animals such as true shrimp.

Further appendages are found on the abdomen, with each segment capable of carrying a pair of biramous pleopods, the last of which form part of the tail fan ( together with the telson ) and are called uropods.

The genus Triops can be distinguished from the only other genus of Notostraca, Lepidurus, by the form of the telson, which bears a pair of long, thin caudal extensions in Triops, while Lepidurus bears a central platelike process.

The uropods may work in concert with the telson to form a " tail fan ".

Some members of the genera Ambystoma and Dicamptodon have larvae that never fully develop into the adult form but this varies with species and with populations.

A 1998 systematic review of studies assessing its prevalence in 13 countries concluded that about 31 % of cancer patients use some form of complementary and alternative medicine .< ref name = Ernst_Cassileth > Alternative medicine varies from country to country.

The name has been extended to many other entities, and the concept of a protective shield is found in other mythologies, while its form varies across sources.

This requires a term of the form for some k. In the above equation, the correct k varies with h. Set and the right hand side becomes.

This situation varies in unusual conformations of DNA within the cell ( see below ), but the major and minor grooves are always named to reflect the differences in size that would be seen if the DNA is twisted back into the ordinary B form.

For internal combustion engines in the form of jet engines, the power output varies drastically with airspeed and a less variable measure is used: thrust specific fuel consumption ( TSFC ), which is the number of pounds of propellant needed to generate impulses that measure a pound force-hour.

The degree of muscle weakness involved in MG varies greatly among patients, ranging from a localized form that is limited to eye muscles ( ocular myasthenia ), to a severe and generalized form in which many muscles-sometimes including those that control breathing-are affected.

The Mindanao River and its main tributaries, the Catisan and the Pulangi, form a valley with a maximum length of and a width which varies from at the river mouth to about in central Cotabato.

The exact form of a Latin or classical Greek word varies due to the grammatical process of declension.

Vegetation along the escarpment varies in both form and density, with community structure ranging from dense woodlands to more shrubby areas with scattered trees.

With the Intertropical Convergence Zone ( ITCZ ) swinging northward over West Africa from the Southern Hemisphere in April, heavy showers coming from pre-monsoonal convective clouds mainly in the form of squall lines also known as the north easterlies formed mainly as a result of the interactions of the two dominant airmasses in Nigeria known as the Maritime tropical ( south westerlies ) and the Continental tropical ( north easterlies ), begins in central Nigeria while the Monsoons from the south atlantic ocean arrives in central Nigeria in July bringing with it high humidity, heavy cloud cover and heavy rainfall which can be daily occurrence lasting till September when the monsoons gradually begin retreating southward to the southern part of Nigeria. Rainfall totals in central Nigeria varies from in the lowlands of the river Niger Benue trough to over along the south western escarpment of the Jos Plateau.

For some drugs ( typically profens ), an isomerase enzyme in vivo converts the inactive enantiomer into the active form, although its activity varies widely in individuals.

Even within individual traditions it varies considerably in form, depending on the specific occasion.

Penguins form monogamous pairs for a breeding season, though the rate the same pair recouples varies drastically.

Although the short story is expressly defined by its length, the precise length of stories that can be considered ' short ' varies between critics and writers, especially when taking account of the diversity of the form across genres.

The mathematical form of this equation varies depending on the type of wave.

The appearance of a werewolf in its animal form varies from culture to culture, though it is most commonly portrayed as being indistinguishable from ordinary wolves save for the fact that it has no tail ( a trait thought characteristic of witches in animal form ), is often larger, and retains human eyes and voice.

The form of the stored nutrition varies depending on the kind of plant.

As with any form of art, acceptance depends on social demographics and varies from person to person.

The coefficient of the cos ( ωt ) harmonic has two terms, one that varies linearly with V and one that varies with the cube of V. In fact, the coefficient of cos ( ωt ) has nearly the same form as the transfer function, except for the factor ¾ on the cubic term.

The distribution of profits by other forms of mutual organization also varies from that of joint stock companies, though may not take the form of a dividend.

The external form of the polyp varies greatly in different cases.

Then he began to speak about the tension in art between the mess and form.

Deans can form an important bridge between the president and the faculty.

To form spout, between two designs, dampen area slightly and gently push clay outward.

The form of galvanic activity is halfway between the magnetic form and the electrical form.

These two recollections form the frame around a series of experiences and sights which, to me at least, symbolize the extremes in the aesthetic as well as ethical conflict between materialism and humanism.

Without agreeing with every phrase in this statement, we must certainly assert the great difference between Christian love and any form of resistance, and then go on beyond the Mennonite position and affirm that Christian love-in-action must first justify and then determine the moral principles limiting resistance.

Many studies have observed the effects of volunteerism ( as a form of altruism ) on happiness and health and have consistently found a strong connection between volunteerism and current and future health and well-being.

A number of non-Greek etymologies have been suggested for the name, The form Apaliunas (< sup > d </ sup >) is attested as a god of Wilusa in a treaty between Alaksandu of Wilusa and the Hittite great king Muwatalli II ca 1280 BCE.

The thoracic segment appears to form a hinge between the head and pygidium allowing for a bivalved ostracodan-type lifestyle.

The Araks forms most of Armenia's border with Turkey and Iran while the Zangezur Mountains form the border between Armenia's southern province of Syunik and Azerbaijan's adjacent Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic.

Thus, at pH between 2. 2 and 9. 4, the predominant form adopted by α-amino acids contains a negative carboxylate and a positive α-ammonium group, as shown in structure ( 2 ) on the right, so has net zero charge.

His denunciation of the royal dynasty of Israel, and his emphatic insistence on the worship of Yahweh and Yahweh alone, illustrated by the contest between Yahweh and Baal on Mount Carmel, as told in 1 Kings 18, form the keynote to a period which culminated in the accession of Jehu, an event in which Elijah's chosen disciple Elisha was the leading figure.

Several editions featuring Newton's first three stanzas and the verse previously included by Harriet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Tom's Cabin were published by Excell between 1900 and 1910, and his version of " Amazing Grace " became the standard form of the song in American churches.

Hijackings for hostages commonly produce an armed standoff during a period of negotiation between hijackers and authorities, followed by some form of settlement.

The class of all unital associative R-algebras together with algebra homomorphisms between them form a category, sometimes denoted R-Alg.

There is a large degree of mutual intelligibility between the two languages — especially in written form.

Hot adhesives, also known as hot melt adhesives, are thermoplastics applied in molten form ( in the 65-180 ° C range ) which solidify on cooling to form strong bonds between a wide range of materials.

* During the 1980s, the block of 16th Street NW between L and M streets, in front of the Soviet embassy, in Washington, D. C. was renamed " Andrei Sakharov Place " as a form of protest against his 1980 arrest and detention.

One variation shortens the second line and lengthens the last, to form a near-rhyme between N and zed:

It is assumed that internal interaction forces obey Newton's third law of motion in its strong form, that is, that the forces between particles are equal and opposite and act along the line between the particles.

The outcome of the trip to Mexico was Whorf's sketch of Milpa Alta Nahuatl, published only after his death, and an article on a series of Aztec pictograms found at the Tepozteco monument at Tepoztlán, Morelos in which he noted similarities in form and meaning between Aztec and Maya day signs.